White Heat (1949)
Raoul Walsh's 1949 noir gangster. Cagney as psychopathic mama's boy Cody Jarrett.
Raoul Walsh directed White Heat, High Sierra and The Roaring Twenties, and had earlier played John Wilkes Booth in The Birth of a Nation. He lost an eye in a car accident during a shoot and wore an eyepatch for the rest of a career spanning fifty years and more than a hundred and thirty films.
Raoul WalshRaoul Walsh's 1949 noir gangster. Cagney as psychopathic mama's boy Cody Jarrett.
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